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  • Girls just want to have guns: Ghost Recon Commander and the art of helping Facebook games grow up
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    Girls just want to have guns: Ghost Recon Commander and the art of helping Facebook games grow up

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    Just last month, a new Ghost Recon game came out. Not only did it take the most risky approach yet to the long-standing stealth-action franchise, but it managed - against a deluge of other releases - to stand out as something totally unique. In some respects, you could argue that it charted a new course for its platform. Oh, and I forgot to mention: I'm talking about the one for Facebook
  • Founder Trip Hawkins exits Digital Chocolate as almost 200 are let go?
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    Founder Trip Hawkins exits Digital Chocolate as almost 200 are let go?

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    You know the famous saying: life in the social games business is like a box of digital chocolate; you never know what you're going to get. Or when you're going to canned, as the case may be. In an unsettling development for one of the space's hottest companies, we're getting wind of big shakeups at the studio founded by industry legend and EA mastermind Trip Hawkins. We're talking multinational closures big.
  • Facebook News Feed: now with gaming!
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    Facebook News Feed: now with gaming!

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    Whether you're a player or a developer of Facebook games, it's shocking to see how much has changed in so short a span of time. Since the kickoff of the company's "Open Graph," and "frictionless sharing," everything from making games to using them to spreading info about them has evolved. And yet, more is in the works! If you thought the announcement of a brand new Facebook App Center was big news, hold on to your hats. Or hair. Or heads.
  • Gamezebo Readers: tell us what you think about cheating in social games!
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    Gamezebo Readers: tell us what you think about cheating in social games!

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    Amid the gruelling everyday grind of playing video games (don't hit me!), we here at Gamezebo get hundreds of letters related to industry goings on and developer announcements. As part of staying current, and keeping you in the know, we take pride in posting that stuff whenever possible. However, every so often, we get a truly unique opportunity to share stories or info that only our readers have access to; it's those moments we enjoy the most. Yes, even more than playing video games!
  • Finally! Game discovery comes to Facebook with App Center
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    Finally! Game discovery comes to Facebook with App Center

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    Developers rejoice! Gamers rejoice! Rejoicers? Well, you already beat us to the punch, but I guess we'll let you join in anyway. A little social network you may have heard of named Facebook announced earlier today the long awaited introduction of a formal platform for app and game discovery. Dubbed the "App Center," Facebook's centralized marketplace looks to take the black hole that is the company's apps catalogue and bring to it much needed order.
  • No, seriously – why isn’t Catan on Facebook?
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    No, seriously – why isn’t Catan on Facebook?

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    Whenever news breaks about something happening at Zynga, there's always one photo that inevitably surfaces again on the internet. It's a snapshot of Zynga CEO Mark Pincus wearing three things: a winning grin, a black hoodie, and a t-shirt that says "YES WE CATAN."
  • Facebook makes more tweaks in an attempt to drive users towards games
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    Facebook makes more tweaks in an attempt to drive users towards games

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    Whether your games are good, bad, or merely mediocre, there's one thing every developer can agree on - getting noticed matters. Your game might be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but if nobody knows about it nobody's going to play it. And while marketing plays a pretty big role in this, sometimes visibility has a lot do with the platform you choose.